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Or 5856
- Record Id:
- 032-002430546
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002430546
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000006524.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023925586.0x000002
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- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Or 5856
- Title:
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Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn تذكرة الكحّالين
Kaḥḥāl, ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá كحّال، علي بن عيسى
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A treatise on diseases of the eye by ‘Alī ibn ‘Īsá al-Kaḥḥāl (علي بن عيسى الكحّال; fl. first half of 11th century), the leading oculist of his time at the Abbasid capital, Baghdad.
The text is divided into three books (مقالات):
المقالة الأولى (‘Book 1’; ff. 3v-16r);
المقالة الثاني أذكر فيها أمراض العين الظاهرة للحسّ (‘Book 2, in which I discuss perceptible eye diseases’; ff. 16r-120v);
المقالة الثالثة أذكر فيها أمراض العين الخفية عن الحسّ (‘Book 3, in which I mention imperceptible eye diseases’; ff. 120v-162v).
The copy was completed on 20 Ṣafar 690 (22 February 1291) in the Baghdad suburb of Balkh by Muḥamad ibn ‘Alī ibn Quddāmah al-Baghdādī (see colophon, f. 162r, lines 3-8, transcribed below).
Folio 1r contains notes by various hands, including some lines of verse and erroneous speculations about the meaning of Galen's name and the inscription supposedly found on his ring.
Begins (f. 1v, lines 2-7):
رسالة على بن عيسى الكحّال جوابًا عمّا سأله
بعض إخوانه من تعريفه أمراض العين
وعلاجاتها وأدويتها
وصل كتابك أيها الأخ الفاضل حفظك الله برأفته وأرشدك
إلى الصواب برحمته تسئل عن جوامع كتب جالينوس في أمراض
العين وعلاج كل مرض منها ...
Ends (ff. 161v, line 11-162r, line 2):
... وقد بلغت
ذلك ما سألت وندلت المحمود في الاختصار وأمل استوالت (؟)
أن ينفع به كل من قرأ وأسئلك أعزل الله ابقال إذا
[f. 162r] قراءته أن تتأمله جيدًا فإن كان فيه سهو فهو من الناقل
له واختلاف النسخ يحرف تذكرة الكحالين والحمد لله وحده (؟)
Colophon (f. 162r, lines 3-9):
الفراغ في عشرين صفر سنة تسعين وستمائة الهلالية
ببغداد والحمد لله رب العالمين
وصلواته على خير خلقه محمد
النبي وآله الطيبين
الطاهرين
كتبه العبد الضعيف محمد بن علي بن قُدّامة البغدادي في بلدة بلخ
فنعم الله من صامحه ودعا له وللمؤمنين بالمغفرة
- Collection Area:
- Oriental Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002430546
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002430546
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- Codex; ff. i+162+i
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000006524.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Arabic
- Scripts:
- Arabic
- Start Date:
- 1291
- End Date:
- 1291
- Date Range:
- 690
- Calendar:
- Hijri qamari
- Era:
- AH
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper
Dimensions: 181 x 143 mm leaf [153 x 102 mm written]
Foliation: British Museum foliation in pencil
Ruling: Misṭarah; 13 lines per page; vertical spacing 8 lines per 10 cm
Script: Vocalised naskh
Ink: Black ink, with rubricated headings and over-inking in red
Binding: British Museum binding
Condition: Light foxing and some grime due mostly to thumbing
Marginalia: Many annotations by numerous hands in black and red ink
- Source of Acquisition:
- Purchased from Messrs Hannan and Watson, October 15, 1900
- Administrative Context:
- Balkh, Baghdad
- Finding Aids:
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- Hamarneh, Sami, Catalogue of Arabic Manuscripts on Medicine and Pharmacy at the British Library (Cairo: Les Editions Universitaires d’Egypte, 1975), pp. 84-85, Item 89
- Ellis, A.G. and Edward Edwards, A Descriptive List of the Arabic Manuscripts Acquired by the Trustees of the British Museum since 1894 (London: British Museum, 1912), p. 45
- Publications:
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Editions:
- Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, Tadhkirat al-kaḥḥālīn, ed. by Ghawth Muḥyī al-Dīn al-Qādirī al-Sharafī (Ḥaydar’ābād: Maṭbūʻāt Dāírat ʼal-Maʻārif ʼal-ʻUthmānīyah, 1964)
Translation:
- Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, Erinnerungsbuch für Augenärzte, trans. by Julius Hirschberg and Julius Lippert, in Die arabischen Augenärzte nach den Quellen, vol. 1, ed. by J. Hirschberg, J. Lippert, and E. Mittwoch (Leipzig: Veit & Co., 1904)
- Kaḥḥāl, ʻAlī ibn ʻĪsá, Memorandum book of a tenth-century oculist for the use of modern ophthalmologists: a translation of the Tadhkirat of Ali ibn Isa of Baghdad (cir. 940-1010 A.D.), the most complete, practical and original of all the early textbooks on the eye and its diseases: the first edition in English, trans. by Casey A. Wood (Chicago: Northwestern University, 1936)
Study:
- Ullmann, Manfred, Die Medizin im Islam (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 208-09
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)